The bust is one of the few surviving examples of Futurist sculptures made by Boccioni in 1912 and 1913 and exhibited at the Galerie 23 in Paris in 1913.
The original gesso, exhibited since 1938 in the Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, was acquired in 1950 by the museum from Benedetta Marinetti.[1]
Description
The sculpture represents the futurist decomposition of the face of the artist's beloved mother, also portrayed in the 1913 painting Materia. Boccioni also executed a 1913 painting with the same title, Antigrazioso, but with a different setting.
^ ab"Gli artisti e le opere". www.gnamdrive.beniculturali.it (in Italian). 7 March 2013. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
"Gli artisti e le opere". www.gnamdrive.beniculturali.it (in Italian). 7 March 2013. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-27.